My soundtrack came today... very nice packaging, and it came in a think pink plastic bag with the Grasshopper logo on it and "Let's punk" repeated all over it.

Aaaaaaaaand, it had Akira Yamaoka's signature, even though I was order number 900. Yamaoka decided that everyone who orders the soundtrack should get an autograph, and they're gonna press 500 more copies!

Let's be fair here, he may've actually had some decent ideas there. Hell, a lot of the stigma with online being added to games is because they come off as just marking off another thing on a checklist of what a game is "missing", like in Bioshock 2 or Dead Space 2 (and I fear Mass Effect 3), rather than an interesting and novel idea such as Demon's Souls or Dark Souls. Admittedly I think it'd have been even better had the game stayed true to one of its earlier visions, and while stuff like that usually changes for a reason it sounds like the reason this time is "Americans like to shoot things."